How to listen? 1. The easiest method is to use the flash player built into the listening panel. It doesn’t use a cache, but it works well enough with an unstable internet connection. It automatically re-starts playback (after lost connection to the internet).

3. We’re included in iTunes Radio and Windows Radio Guide catalogues. Look in the Classic Rock section and you can easily listen to our radio straight from there. You can also find us in other catalogues - Tuner24, PickRadio, RadioShaker, RadioGuideFM and others.

4. From mobile devices - the free and convenient TuneIn app for iOS, Android and other platforms. In the catalogue, find TrueColorsRadio. This allows for a buffer, which really saves during playback using mobile data. This is even better if you have a wifi connection.

5. On stationary audio equipment with connectivity to the internet made by companies like Pioneer, Denon, Onkyo, Philips, Sony, Yamaha, Teac, etc. We’re included in their build-in radio catalogues.

John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947, the eldest child of Stanley and only child of Sheila Eileen Dwight (née Harris) and was raised in Pinner, Middlesex in a council house of his maternal grandparents. His parents did not marry until he was 6 years old, when the family moved to a nearby semi-detached house. He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School, until age 17, when he left just prior to his A Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry.

When John began to seriously consider a career in music, his father, who served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, such as banking. John has stated that his wild stage costumes and performances were his way of letting go after such a restrictive childhood. Both of John's parents were musically inclined, his father having been a trumpet player with the Bob Millar Band, a semi-professional big band that played at military dances. The Dwights were keen record buyers, exposing John to the popular singers and musicians of the day, and John remembers being immediately hooked on rock and roll when his mother brought home records by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956.

Throughout his career, John has battled addictions to alcohol and cocaine. By 1975, the pressures of stardom had begun to take a serious toll on him. During "Elton Week" in Los Angeles that year, John suffered a drug overdose. He also battled the eating disorder bulimia. In a CNN interview with Larry King in 2002, King asked if John knew of Diana, Princess of Wales' eating disorder. John replied, "Yes, I did. We were both bulimic."

John became chairman and director of Watford Football Club in 1976, appointing Graham Taylor as manager and investing large sums of money as the club rose three divisions into the First Division. The pinnacle of the club's success was finishing runners up in the First Division in 1983 and reaching the FA Cup Final a year later. He sold the club to Jack Petchey in 1987, but remained their lifelong president. In 1997 he re-purchased the club from Petchey and once again became chairman. He stepped down in 2002 when the club needed a full-time chairman although he continued as president of the club.Although no longer the majority shareholder, he still holds a significant financial interest.

The note prepared by Alexandre Gritsouk

Musical editor:

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A separate special thanks, for their support, ideas, recommendations and other help:

Non-commercial internet radio station, broadcasting popular modern music including best compositions from the past, showcasing soul, funk, rock, disco, blues, reggae and other genres of music.

Idea:

The station is conceived as a convenient and accessible source of quality music for personal listening and aimed at those for whom music is a large component of life and personal philosophy.
There are no commercials, no news and no DJs. The defining criteria for addition of a song into the playlist is the melody, rhythm or uniqueness (originality).

Application:

Home and/or work. In the car, or on rollerblades. With headphones, from a cellphone or on a quality acoustic setup.
Music for a restaurant, cafe or bar. Office or warehouse. In the rain, or in the summertime, in the heat or at night.
Maintaining your positive mood with an optimistic attitude!

Playback of the content is done by random choice from a collection of renewable playlists. The distribution of tracks on air is even. Each composition during playback is accompanied with an information stream including song lyrics, and a relevant photo of the artist or album art. Many compositions include short commentary, describing the history of the composition or the performer.
Voting is accessible during playback, and recommendations and comments are welcome in the separately designated field. The results of the voting are using in a rating of 10 and 100 most liked, and your recommendations influence the 10/100 Last Added list.

A bit of TrueColors Radio history.
Having a large personal collection of music, I always noticed the extra pleasure of hearing a favourite track play on the radio, or in some cafe, or the beach, or any other place.

This observation led to an idea—at first glance a non-trivial one—launching a personal radio stream! The initial audience was meant to be myself, and others close in their musical tastes (and otherwise).

The obvious pluses, differentiating this solution from listening to files stored on the computer, radio, or other sources:
1. Autonomy. There’s no need to choose, launch, download, select, etc. At a maximum, it’s opening a window and pressing play.
2. You never know what song is next—the element of surprise, just like on the radio—but you know for sure that it’ll be a good one (everything in the rotation is chosen by you).
3. Good distribution of song playback—no more “overlistening”.
4. No advertising, news, entertainment shows, just music.
5. Ability for everyone who is interested to listen simultaneously, and the location and time of day don’t make any difference. The only requirements is access to the internet.

So, based on these general attitudes, in August 2011, TrueColors Radio was started. The only problem of that moment was solved. That would have been a satisfactory place to stop.

But, I was lucky, and a certain amount of listeners from my circles started to show initiative with adding musical and related organizational suggestions. This was unexpected, and another new, significant result appeared: familiarity with a ton of new music, all matching a certain taste.

This, I can say with certainty, is very valuable. From experience in past years, for every year of listening to music available from different sources, my collection was growing by maybe a few dozen new tracks that were new to me. In the previous year of TrueColors Radio I heard several hundred tracks, which match 100% with my musical coordinate system.

I value this breakthrough greatly, and am very grateful to the people who spend a lot of their time researching and suggesting a variety of tracks, selecting them with accordance to the main criteria they’re familiar with. This possibility of mutual enrichment is the second serious result achieved thanks to TrueColors.

What next?
The time is ripe to set another high goal, on a social scale. Here, the possibility of reaching the goal doesn’t have key importance, since, as a very respected professor in university said, distant, perhaps unachievable goals allow for setting of the right direction of growth, and it’s not too important if the goals themselves are reached in the end.

With respect to radio, the idea is simple: the listener, hooked by a long-known song, with further listening will open themselves to a lot of novelty collected on the station, and perhaps will bring something of their own.

In this fashion they will see a widening of their musical engagement and maybe even more—the improvement in the quality of their taste! This is that distant and noble goal.

We take the musical component of our station seriously, and we do the same for the visual component.

Design and copywriting of everything you see on TrueColors Radio are the result of Olesya’s participation in the project. In addition, all tasks related to the branding and the accompanying graphic decisions (from cards to car stickers) fall on her fragile shoulders.

Here we really made use of her skills and experience, developed during her studies to be a designer and work at a PR agency as well as her obvious intuition and creativity.

Many radio stations of varying themes and directions exist, but TrueColors Radio distinguishes itself by its main concepts.

Firstly, the absence of commercials aspects, and as a corollary absence of advertising in any form.

Secondly, the possibility of influencing the repertoire by any of the listeners; with the help of recommendations to include a particular song in the track list, as well as with the help of likes/dislikes for the ones already in it.

Most importantly: the music. The music is of various styles and epochs but united by something that doesn’t have a concrete definition; possibly the melody, maybe the quality of the performance, or maybe it just rings in unison with the strings in our souls, which reflect our views on life.

The way TrueColors Radio visually and functionally delivers music to its listeners is entirely Alexader’s accomplishment.

Specifically, the entire interface including display of information about the tracks (cover, comments, lyrics), voting and charts, recommendations, the content management system, and much of the other functionality that highlights your visit to the TrueColors Radio was developed and implemented by Alexander.

Results like these are possible for a graduate of a relevant faculty, having work experience with internet technologies, not being too distracted by the musical component of the project. After all, someone has to solve the strictly technical problem, not float in the musical clouds, as many other members of the TrueColors Radio team typically do.

We’ll gladly consider your musical recommendations and other suggestions! To do this it isn’t necessary to register! It’s enough to add your name, the message (name of the song) and the verification code.

Recommendations chart

Registered members have access to the following functionality:

1. Detailed view of recommendations
2. Full track listing
3. Song list with Dislike toggles
4. Emulation of display of any track from the list
5. List of recently deleted tracks
6. Addition of comments to a track
7. Addition of lyrics to a track